House Rocker: John Stamos Has Enjoyed a Three-Decade Career Supporting The Beach Boys in More Ways Than One
On Yahoo! Screen's new online show Losing It with John Stamos, celebrities sit down with the former Full House heartthrob to recall their first sexual encounters, often in hilariously cringe-worthy fashion. But as awkward debuts go, it's pretty hard to beat the first time Stamos ever shared a stage with the Beach Boys…and Jimmy Page.
The year was 1985, and Stamos—then a 21-year-old actor coming off a breakthrough run on General Hospital and a lead role as a wannabe rock star on the short-lived CBS series Dreams — had been invited to join his all-time-favorite band on drums for a few numbers during their massive Fourth of July concerts in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
"Jeffrey Foskett, the Beach Boys' guitarist, was the guy who got me in to meet my heroes," Stamos recalls. "And he was the one who asked them, 'Can John play 'Barbara Ann' and some other songs with us?' And then, the day before the gig, Jeffrey told me, 'Jimmy Page is playing guitar!' "
Foskett was deputized to run through the songs in advance with the British guitar legend, so he paid a visit to Page's hotel suite and took Stamos with him. "We went up to Jimmy's room," Stamos recalls, "and he immediately offered us a shot of Jack Daniel's. I barely drank light beer in those days, and it just burned my throat. But it's Jimmy Page saying, 'Hey, here's some Jack,' so fuck it.
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